Here’s Your Chance to Play a Young Robert De Niro in the Raging Bull Sequel

Finally, a way to cash in on the looks that many of your grandmother’s friends have compared to Robert De Niro’s “but younger”: more than three decades after Raging Bullarrived in theaters, producers are finally beginning production on a sequel to the seminal Martin Scorsese film, which earned De Niro an Academy Award. Only Scorsese and De Niro are not involved . . . which is where you come in.

Director Martin Guigui (Swing, Cattle Call, and other movies that you might have accidentally started watching on an obscure cable channel after two a.m.) is searching for a “Young Jake Lamotta” for Raging Bull II, described on IMDb as “a unique combination prequel and sequel that explores ‘before the rage’ and ‘after the rage’ of world middleweight boxing champ Jake LaMotta’s tumultuous life and times.” According to a casting notice, producers are searching for someone who is over the age of 18 (or legally emancipated) who can play “14-20 years old, and [a character who is] already a tough bare knuckles fighter. He takes his father’s frequent beatings without a sound and makes money fighting much bigger opponents in back alley fights set up by his drunken, abusive father.”

Additionally, the casting notice provides good news for anyone who looks like an old De Niro: producers are also searching for “Jake’s father, a tough-looking Italian man, he’s a mean drunk who handcuffs and beats his son.” The catch? They want someone with a “STAR NAME ONLY.”

Production is slated to begin in June or July in Los Angeles, with William Forsythe assuming De Niro’s role of adult Jake LaMotta.